Integrate your residuals while solving dynamic optimization problems

Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Extended differential balancing based model reduction for structure preservation

Jacquelien Scherpen, University of Groningen.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Vector-based steering control in the insect brain

Barbara Webb, University of Edinburgh.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

CANCELLED - An Optimization-based Approach to Safe and Efficient Learning-based Control

Melanie Zeilinger.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Control challenges in Synthetic and Evolutionary Biology

Harrison Steel, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Design principles of complex cellular decision-making networks during cancer metastasis

Mohit Kumar Jolly, IISc Bangalore.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Distributed Learning and Control for Networked Autonomy

Konstantinos Gatsis, University of Oxford.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 23 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Microbial growth behavior and the control of protein synthesis in and out of steady state

Jonas Cremer, Stanford University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Data-driven control of hybrid systems and Chance-Constrained optimization

Raphael Jungers, UC Louvain.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 14 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Feedback system analysis: back to the future

Rodolphe Sepulchre, KU Leuven and University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

A Modern Conjecture on Absolute Stability

Joaquin Carrasco, University of Manchester.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Smarter materials for simpler robotics

Andrew Conn.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Generalisable 3D printing error detection and correction via neural networks

Sebastian Pattinson, Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 01 December 2022, 14:00-15:00

On motor intelligence for soft robots

Cosimo Della Santina, Assistant Professor at TU Delft, The Netherland.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Physics-based modeling of deformable robots for real-time simulation and control

Christian Duriez, Research Director at Inria Lille, France.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 10 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Force sensing across different length scales - from cell biology to orthopaedic surgery

Prof. Sohini Kar-Narayan, Department of Materials Science, University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Sunday 30 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Multivariable Control in 40 Minutes

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, Emeritus Professor of Control Engineering, Cambridge University.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Sensorimotor Control of Robotic Wearable technologies

Tamar Makin, MRC CBU at the University of Cambridge.

Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 20 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Controlling imperfect robot swarms

Hector Garcia de Marina, Universidad de Granada.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 30 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Non-Stationary Representation Learning in Sequential Linear Bandits

Yuzhen Qin, University of California, Riverside.

JBD seminar room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 16 June 2022, 16:00-17:00

Distributed Control of DC Microgrids with Flexible Structure

Mahdieh S. Sadabadi, Queen Mary University of London.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Size-dependence of switching and stable behavior in biochemical systems

Monika Jozsa, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Analysis and design of bio-inspired indecision-breaking decision makers

Alessio Franci, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Dyson Teaching Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 2376 0684 Passcode: 986863).

Thursday 19 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Weak Control for Human-in-the-loop Systems

Masaki Inoue, Keio University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 892 4602 0075 Passcode: 913765).

Thursday 05 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

On Minimax Adaptive Control

Anders Rantzer, Lund University.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 832 4377 0774 Passcode: 684832).

Thursday 28 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Passivity, Monotonicity, and Network Optimization: New Perspectives for Network Systems Analysis

Daniel Zelazo, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 837 4007 0422 Passcode: 081031).

Thursday 21 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Dance-inspired investigation of human locomotor coordination

Praneeth Namburi, MIT.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 825 7950 4541 Passcode: 123551).

Thursday 14 April 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cybergenetics: A control theory for living cells

Corentin Briat, ETH-Zürich.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 3342 6333 Passcode: 367773).

Thursday 31 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Advanced Sliding Mode Control

Antonella Ferrara, University of Pavia.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 856 0420 7880 Passcode: 578888).

Thursday 24 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Modular analysis of linear systems using assume-guarantee contracts

Bart Besselink, University of Groningen.

Baker Building - Board Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 842 0121 0459 Passcode: 338605).

Thursday 10 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Learning-based control of soft robots

Thomas George-Thuruthel, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom Meeting ID: 839 0458 8067 Passcode: 572898).

Thursday 03 March 2022, 11:00-12:00

Data-driven stabilization of nonlinear polynomial systems with noisy data

Meichen Guo, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom: Meeting ID: 875 1060 6963, Passcode: 661347).

Thursday 24 February 2022, 15:00-16:00

Saddle-point dynamics, non-expansive semiflows, and necessary and sufficient conditions for convergence

Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge).

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Epidemic mitigation through testing and optimal urban mobility

Muhammad Umar B Niazi, KTH.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 27 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Contraction and Convexity, Robustness and Regularisation

For the Zoom link to this talk, please e-mail tbb29@cam.ac.uk

Prof. Ian Manchester, University of Sydney.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 09 December 2021, 09:00-10:00

Towards a Theory of Energy Conversion

Prof. Arjan van der Schaft, University of Groningen.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 02 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Title to be confirmed

Dr. Henk van Waarde, ETH Zurich.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Modeling human sensorimotor control for better control of surgical robots

Prof. Ilana Nisky, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Distributed Optimal Secondary Frequency Control for Power Systems With Delay Independent Stability

Dr. Mengmou Li, University of Cambridge.

Dyson Seminar Room, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

A deterministic least squares approach for simultaneous input and state estimation

Greg Gakis, University of Cambridge.

LR 11, Department of Engineering / Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Closing The Gap Between Theory and Experiments in The Design of Biomolecular Feedback Circuits

Zoom meeting link to be released

Noah Olsman, Harvard University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 August 2021, 14:00-15:00

Combining two mechanisms to produce neural firing rate homeostasis

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97625047934

Paul Miller, Brandeis University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 01 July 2021, 14:00-15:00

Spiking Control Systems

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93178617889

Prof. Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 24 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Graphical Nonlinear System Analysis

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96507147724

Tom Chaffey, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 17 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Distribution and regulation of ion channels in neurons: Quantitative studies of global protein transport and homeostatic synaptic scaling

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99231423419

Adriano Bellotti, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 08 April 2021, 14:00-15:00

Generalized Nash equilibrium seeking under partial information

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/96326600203

Sergio Grammatico, TU Delft.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

The role of space in evolution: insights from microbial and viral expansions

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99083035008

Diana Fusco, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 11 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Information transfer from biological to analog microcircuits

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97349674751

Prof. Alain Nogaret, University of Bath.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 25 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Stabilization of Discrete-Time Switched Affine Systems and their Applications in Power Electronics

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98109940596

Dr. Lucas Egidio, Université Catholique de Louvain.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 18 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Stability of Optimisation-based Control: Brief Review and New Results

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93349961156

Wen-Hua Chen, Loughborough University.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 04 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Data-driven control à la Finsler and Yakubovich

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92943573797

Henk van Waarde, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 21 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Identification and model reduction of complex network systems

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93541687585

Dr. Xiaodong Cheng, Eindhoven University of Technology.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 03 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

A canonical brain computation: from mechanism to purpose

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/99373703786

Dr. Yashar Ahmadian, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 26 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

A Digital Twin for Controlling Industrial Processes

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/98082715567

Dr. Amritam Das, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 19 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Electronics on the Brain

Prof. George Malliaras, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 12 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Self-Healing Codes

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/92275948382

Dr. Michael Rule, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 05 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Understanding and engineering biological networks using timelapse microfluidic microscopy

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/93507110597

Somenath Bakshi, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 29 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

An Optimal Control Approach to Covid-19

Zoom meeting link: https://zoom.us/j/97430090424

Prof. Jan Maciejowski, University of Cambridge.

Online (Zoom).

Thursday 22 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Nonlinear resonance and excitability in interconnected systems

Ilario Cirillo, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 11 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

System Identification of Neuronal Behaviors

Thiago Burghi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

On feedback control of switches and oscillators based on dominance theory

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department..

Thursday 28 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Geometric Thinking in Engineering and Applied Sciences

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department..

Thursday 21 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Tradeoffs in biological optimisation

Dhruva Raman, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 14 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Hierarchical Robust Performance Analysis of Uncertain Large Scale Systems

Khaled Laib, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 07 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

An overview of Research and Robotics at Google Deepmind

Francesco Nori, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Exploiting Sparsity in Semidefinite and Sum of Squares Programming

Antonis Papachristodoulou, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 20 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Integral quadratic constraints for asynchronous sampled-data links

Michael Cantoni, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 13 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Principles of lossless adjustable one-ports

Malcolm Smith, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 06 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Sequential Monte Carlo and deep regression

Thomas Schön, Uppsala University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 30 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Networks of Nonsmooth Oscillators & Applications in Neuroscience

Stephen Coombes, University of Nottingham.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, TBD.

Thursday 23 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Sliding Modes for Estimation: theory and practice

Sarah Spurgeon, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR 12.

Thursday 05 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Data Science: From System Identification to (Deep) Learning and Big Data

Lennart Ljung, Linköping University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Monday 02 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Biologically realistic mean-field models of neuronal populations

Alain Destexhe, Paris-Saclay Institute of Neuroscience (NeuroPSI), CNRS, Gif sur Yvette, France..

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 16:00-17:00

On Nucleic Acid Feedback Controllers

Nuno Paulino, University of Warwick.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 28 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Learning and retaining tasks in redundant brain circuits

Timothy O'Leary, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 21 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Neuromorphic control

Luka Ribar, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 14 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

A tool for analysis and synthesis of heterogeneous multi-agent systems

Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 24 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Interaction between humans and with robot

Etienne Burdet, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 17 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Synchronization of heterogeneous agents via funnel coupling

Stephan Trenn, University of Groningen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Soft robotics: Fusing actuation with perception

Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 10 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Long-term dynamics of synapses and representations in the mouse auditory cortex

Prof. Simon Rumpel, University of Mainz.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Tuesday 24 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

TBD

Jin Gyu Lee, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Friday 13 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Minkowski, Lyapunov, and Bellman: Inequalities and Equations for Stability and Optimal Control

Sasa Rakovic, Beijing Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Seminar Room JDB.

Thursday 12 September 2019, 14:00-15:00

Lie group and homogeneous variational integrators and their applications to geometric optimal control theory

Melvin Leok, University of California, San Diego.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 1.

Thursday 18 July 2019, 14:00-15:00

Automotive Control Using Non-Linear System Models With Uncertainty

Thomas Steffen, Loughborough University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3.

Thursday 20 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Morphological Computation - A Potential Solution for the Control Problem in Soft Robotics

Helmut Hauser, University of Bristol.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 13 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Stochastic Sylvester equations for output regulation of linear stochastic systems

Giordano Scarciotti, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

On indefinite damping and gyroscopic stabilization

Tobias Damm, Technische Universität Kaiserslautern.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Limits of precision in stochastic cell biology

Glenn Vinnicombe, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 23 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cascade Dynamics, Multiplex Networks and Heterogeneity

Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 16 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Regulation of Ant Foraging as a Closed-Loop Excitable System

Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 09 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Human and Robot Decision Making in Multi-Armed Bandits

naomi@princeton.edu.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 02 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probabilistic Reliability Management for Electric Power Systems Operation

Louis Wehenkel, University of Liège.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 25 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Block Scaled Diagonal Dominance for Applications in Control Theory and Optimisation

Aivar Sootla, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 21 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Deep Learning meets Control Theory: Research at NNAISENSE

Marco Gallieri, NNAISENSE.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Friday 15 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Contraction Analysis of Monotone Systems

Yu Kawano, University of Groningen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 14 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

The stability of systems in stochastic feedback loops

Roy Smith, ETH Zürich .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Friday 25 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Stochastic modeling and control of power grids under uncertainty

Alessandro Zocca, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 17 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Tracking performance of time-varying nonconvex optimization with application to OPF

Steven Low, Caltech.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Wednesday 09 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Control across scales by positive and negative feedback

Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 13 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Robustness and model reduction of dominant systems

Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 06 December 2018, 14:00-15:00

Distributed price-based control of flexible electrical loads

Antonio De Paola, University of Bath.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Thursday 29 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Control Design Using Differential Games – From Centralised to Decentralised Control

Thulasi Mylvaganam, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Thursday 15 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Optimal control of ballistic movements in a thalamo-cortical circuit model

Guillaume Hennequin, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Thursday 18 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Monitoring and Fault-tolerant Control for Large-Scale Interconnected Systems

Francesca Boem, University College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 21 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

Control theory of switches and clocks

Rodolphe Sepulchre, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 31 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Gaussian distributions in symmetric spaces: novel tools for statistical learning with covariance matrices

Salem Said, CNRS, IMS Laboratory, Bordeaux.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Thursday 17 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Input-to-State Stability for complex dynamics: From global to almost global… and back

David Angeli, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Thursday 10 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Finding Complex Structure in Biological Data

Ioannis Kontoyiannis, University of Cambridge and Athens University of Economics & Business.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 10.

Thursday 03 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

On a Model for the Growth of Tree Stems and Vines

Michele Palladino, Penn State University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10.

Thursday 26 April 2018, 14:00-15:00

Autonomous learning of multimodal internal models for robots using multiple sources of information

Martina Zambelli, Deepmind.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Thursday 08 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

Designing emergent behaviours of (soft) robots

Fumiya Iida, Bio-Inspired Robotics Lab, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR12.

Thursday 01 March 2018, 14:00-15:00

ADMM for Exploiting Structure in MPC Problems

Felix Rey, ETH Zurich.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR12.

Thursday 22 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Neuromechanical models of locomotion: from biology to robotics

Auke Ijspeert, Biorobotics Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR12.

Thursday 01 February 2018, 14:00-15:00

Object Oriented Convex Optimization with CVXPY

Stephen Boyd and Steven Diamond, Stanford University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR4.

Thursday 25 January 2018, 14:00-15:00

Towards Scale-Free Control of large-scale traffic networks

Carlos Canudas-de-Wit, CNRS, Grenoble.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11.

Thursday 23 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Invariant Kalman filtering

Silvère Bonnabel, Mines ParisTech.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11.

Thursday 16 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Model Reduction by Moment Matching at Poles for Linear and Nonlinear Systems

Alberto Padoan, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR10.

Thursday 02 November 2017, 14:00-15:00

Are right-half plane zeros necessary for inverse response? It depends…

Jan Maciejowski (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11.

Thursday 19 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Frequency domain tools for the analysis of Lur'e feedback dominant systems

Felix Miranda-Villatoro, University of Cambridge.

Oatley 1 Meeting Room, Department of Engineering.

Thursday 12 October 2017, 14:00-15:00

Smooth Operators Enhance Robustness

Keith Glover, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room number LR11.

Thursday 05 October 2017, 14:00-14:30

Attasi ND systems, polynomial system solving and algebraic optimization

Bernard Hanzon (University College Cork).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 29 September 2017, 14:00-15:00

OSQP: An Operator Splitting Solver for Quadratic Programs

Bartolomeo Stellato, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 29 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Excitable behaviors

Rodolphe Sepulchre (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 13 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Low-Rank Inducing Norms with Optimality Interpretations

Christian Grussler, University of Lund.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 01 June 2017, 14:00-15:00

Distributed schemes for stability and optimality in power networks

Andreas Kasis, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 25 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Performance Verification and Optimal Synthesis of Embedded Optimization-Based Controllers

Colin Jones, EPFL, Switzerland.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Monday 15 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Verification of Control Laws Using Formal Methods

Kestutis Siaulys, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 11 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Nuclear norm methods for frequency domain system identification

Roy Smith, ETH Zurich.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 04 May 2017, 14:00-15:00

Designing Bregman storage functions for microgrid control

Nima Monshizadeh, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 02 March 2017, 14:15-15:00

A missing data approach to data-driven filtering and control

Ivan Markovsky, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Monday 27 February 2017, 12:00-13:00

Transfer functions of infinite-dimensional systems: positive realness, stabilization and absolute stability

Chris Guiver, University of Bath.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A.

Friday 24 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Positivity, Monotonicity, and Consensus on Lie Groups

Cyrus Mostajeran, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 16 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

A Control Systems Perspective on Supercapacitor Modelling and Design

Ross Drummond, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 09 February 2017, 14:00-15:00

Substrate Enzyme-Sequestration in Multisite Protein Phosphorylation - Introducing WCDD M-matrices in designing stationary probability distributions

Andreas Petrides, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 24 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

On structure preserving H-infinity optimal control

Professor Anders Rantzer, Lund University, Sweden.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Wednesday 23 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Bayesian Optimization for Accelerated Exploration of Chemical Space

José Miguel Hernández Lobato, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 17 November 2016, 15:00-16:00

Controllability and stabilizability of piecewise affine dynamical systems

Kanat Camlibel, University of Groningen.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 10 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Semidefinite approximations of matrix logarithm

Hamza Fawzi, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, JDB Seminar Room.

Thursday 03 November 2016, 14:00-15:00

Information and Entropy Flow in Stochastic Control

Professor Sanjoy Mitter, MIT.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 07 October 2016, 14:00-15:00

Mean Field Games and the Control of Large Scale Systems: An Overview

Peter E. Caines, McGill University, Montreal.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 1.

Wednesday 20 July 2016, 11:30-12:30

It’s not MPC! An Explicit Reference Governor for the supervision of constrained nonlinear systems

Room and time changed

Emanuele Garone, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 09 June 2016, 15:00-16:00

Algebraic methods for parameter-free analysis of biochemical networks

Heather Harrington, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 26 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Quantum control and quantum synchronization

Andreas Nunnenkamp, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 12 May 2016, 14:00-15:00

Bounded Control that Preserves System Stability and its Applications

Qing-Chang Zhong, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, and University of Sheffield.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 10 May 2016, 15:00-16:00

Design Considerations for Economic MPC

Muyiwa Olanrewaju, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 28 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Architectural Issues in the Design of Model Predictive Control: From Centralized to Distributed

He Kong, Cranfield University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 21 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

A Bayesian Approach to Molecular Communication

Chun Tung Chou, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Wednesday 13 April 2016, 14:00-15:00

Communities and privacy in mobile phone social networks

Vincent Blondel, Université catholique de Louvain.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Friday 11 March 2016, 14:30-15:30

Isolating Invisible Dynamics in the Design of Robust Hybrid Internal Models

Lorenzo Marconi, University of Bologna.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 04 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Model Predictive Control for changing operation conditions

Daniel Limon, University of Seville.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 03 March 2016, 14:00-15:00

Stability and power sharing in microgrids

Johannes Schiffer, University of Leeds.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 18 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Computable analysis and control synthesis of complex dynamical systems via formal verification

Alessandro Abate, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 11 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Variational Inference in Gaussian Processes for non-linear time series

Carl Edward Rasmussen, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 04 February 2016, 14:00-15:00

Decomposition and Structured Model Reduction for Large Scale Systems Analysis

James Anderson, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 21 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Integral Quadratic Constraint Theorem: A topological separation approach

Joaquin Carrasco Gomez, University of Manchester.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 14 January 2016, 14:00-15:00

Electron beam stabilisation for a synchrotron: An example of the control of spatio-temporal systems

Stephen Duncan, Oxford University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 26 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

On the Nonlinear Dynamics of Collective Decision-Making in Nature and Design

Naomi Ehrich Leonard, Princeton University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 20 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Transferring the Principles of Human Impedance Control to Soft Robotic Systems

Matthew J Howard, King's College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 13 November 2015, 14:00-15:00

Path-complete Lyapunov techniques: when Algebra and Combinatorics meet in Control

Raphaël Jungers, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 12 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Optimal control of wave energy converters

Eric Kerrigan, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 05 November 2015, 12:00-13:00

Sum of squares programming for discrete-time non-linear systems - with application to power converters

Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 29 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Stability of Reaction Networks: A System-Theoretic Approach

Muhammad Ali Al-Radhawi, Imperial College London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 22 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

Input allocation using dynamics: theory and applications

Luca Zaccarian, LAAS-CNRS and University of Trento.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 08 October 2015, 14:00-15:00

On the Relation between Optimal Transport and Schroedinger Bridges: A Control Perspective

Michele Pavon, University of Padova.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Tuesday 01 September 2015, 11:00-12:00

Hard limits on robust control over delayed and quantized communications

Yorie Nakahira, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11.

Friday 28 August 2015, 14:00-15:00

Koopman Operator Theory for Dynamical Systems and Control Practice

Igor Mezic, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10.

Tuesday 02 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Scalable design of heterogeneous networks

Richard Pates (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 29 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Nonlinear Observers with a Contracting Riemannian Distance

Ricardo G. Sanfelice, University of California, Santa Cruz.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Wednesday 20 May 2015, 14:00-15:00

Stability, Synchronisation and Model Reduction in Nonlinear Systems

Edward Hancock, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 30 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Fractional calculus in control applications

Cristina Muresan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 09 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Who’s Afraid of Fractional Order Laplace?

Clara Ionescu, Ghent University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Wednesday 08 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Generalized Gauss and Expectation Inequalities via Semidefinite Programming

Paul Goulart, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 02 April 2015, 14:00-15:00

Data-driven Nonlinear Control Design Using Robust Adaptive Dynamic Programming

Professor Zhong-Ping Jiang, New York University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 12 February 2015, 14:00-15:00

Model-Based Prediction Augmented with Sensing Techniques for Battery Management Systems

Professor Anna G. Stefanopoulou, University of Michigan.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR4.

Thursday 15 January 2015, 16:00-17:00

Plug-and-Play Operation of Microgrids

Florian Dorfler, ETH Zurich.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 27 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Organizing circuits and biological behaviors

Dr Alessio Franci, University of Cambridge and University of Liege.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 20 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Statistical Change Detection for Prognosis and Diagnosis

Professor Mogens Blanke, Technical University of Denmark.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Tuesday 04 November 2014, 14:00-15:00

Fault-Tolerant Predictive Control: A Gaussian Process Model Based Approach

Xiaoke Yang, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 30 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Optimal control and optimal sampling: A statistical physics perspective.

Bert Kappen, Radboud University Nijmegen, and UCL London.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Tuesday 21 October 2014, 14:30-15:30

Nonlinear Consensus and Formation Control for Switching Topologies

Johan Thunberg, University of Luxembourg.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 16 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Dynamic pricing in social networks: The Word of Mouth effect

Ali Jadbabaie Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Network Science, University of Pennsylvania.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Wednesday 08 October 2014, 15:00-16:00

On the geometry of maximum entropy problems

Professor Michele Pavon, University of Padova.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Wednesday 01 October 2014, 14:00-15:00

Controller Design of a Grid-tie Inverter to Enhance Fault-Ride-Through Capability

Yoshito Ohta, Kyoto University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Tuesday 26 August 2014, 14:00-15:00

Robust Model Predictive Control with Waysets

Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Tuesday 08 July 2014, 14:00-15:00

A multi-function approach to passivity-based control: The linear case.

Dr Fernando Castanos, Cinvestav Mexico.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Tuesday 24 June 2014, 16:30-17:30

Symbiotic Relations: Control Theory and Practice

Professor Keith Glover, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Monday 23 June 2014, 16:00-17:00

Signal Processing via Sampled-Data Control - A Challenge to Go Beyond Shannon

Professor Yutaka Yamamoto, Kyoto University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 13 June 2014, 14:00-15:00

Gradient methods for huge-scale optimization problems

Prof Yurii Nesterov, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 27 May 2014, 17:30-18:30

A scalable approach to the design of large networks

Richard Pates, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 22 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

AR Identification of Latent Graphical Models

Mattia Zorzi, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 15 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Invariant Kalman Filtering

Silvere Bonnabel, Mines Paris-Tech.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 13 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

A Riemannian approach to large scale constrained least squares with symmetries

Bamdev Mishra, University of Liege/ University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 08 May 2014, 14:00-15:00

Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation

Richard Mason, University of Oxford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 01 May 2014, 14:15-15:00

Forecasts and Control: Theory and Practice.

Francesco Borrelli, University of California at Berkeley.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Tuesday 25 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Switched differential systems

Paolo Rapisarda (joint work with Jonathan C. Mayo-Maldonado), University of Southampton.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Monday 24 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Differentially positive systems

Fulvio Forni, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 13 March 2014, 14:00-15:00

Whither discrete-time model predictive control?

Gabriele Pannocchia, University of Pisa.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 06 March 2014, 15:00-16:00

Moment relaxations for the global resolution of optimal control problems

Mathieu Claeys, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Thursday 27 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

The Ribosome Flow Model: Theory and Applications

Michael Margaliot, School of Electrical Engineering, Tel-Aviv University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11.

Thursday 20 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

An introduction to bi-level programming in control

Professor Morten Hovd, Norwegian University of Science and Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 14 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Multi Physics Modelling for Automotive Control Development

Akira Ohata, Toyota Motor Corporation.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Monday 10 February 2014, 14:00-15:00

Discrete-Time Extremum-Seeking for Wiener-Hammerstein Plants with Applications to Online Engine Optimisation

Dr. Rohan Shekhar, University of Melbourne.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Wednesday 18 December 2013, 14:00-15:15

Minimum Seeking for Unstable Unmodeled Systems

Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Monday 25 November 2013, 11:00-12:00

Optimal Control with Noisy Time

Andrew Lamperski, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 14 November 2013, 14:00-15:15

Incorporating Domain-Specific Knowledge in Learning Control using Multiple Dynamics Models

Joe Hall, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 25 October 2013, 14:00-15:00

Control of PDE and Delay Systems Inspired by Applications in Fluids and Structures

Professor Miroslav Krstic, University of California, San Diego.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Wednesday 14 August 2013, 14:00-15:15

Inference in non-linear dynamical systems -- a machine learning perspective

Carl Edward Rasmussen and Andrew McHutchon, Engineering Department, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, CBL Seminar room BE4-38.

Monday 15 July 2013, 16:00-17:15

Ultra high accuracy (UAIM) superresolution microscopy of biological samples: How ugly images give better results than pretty ones

Professor Raimund J. Ober, Department of Electrical Engineering, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Texas at Dallas.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A.

Friday 05 July 2013, 14:00-15:15

Economic Model Predictive Control: basic theory and future directions

Dr. David Angeli, Senior, Senior Lecture, Control and Power Group, Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department., Imperial College.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR2.

Friday 21 June 2013, 14:00-15:15

Next-Generation Smart Grid: Completely Autonomous Power Systems (CAPS)

Qing-Chang Zhong, IET Fellow, SMIEEE Chair in Control and Systems Engineering Dept. of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering The University of Sheffield.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 31 May 2013, 14:00-15:00

Engineering and medicine: Opportunities in type 1 diabetes

Dr. Roman Hovorka, Director of Research, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Laboratories.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 17 May 2013, 14:00-15:15

Research Challenges in Applying Control to Wheel-Rail Contact Problems

Professor T X Mei, Chair in Control and Mechatronics, University of Salford.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 10 May 2013, 14:00-15:15

Plug-and-Play Synthesis and Computation of Predictive Controllers

Dr. Colin Jones, Assistant Professor, Automatic Control Laboratory, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 26 April 2013, 14:00-15:15

Sensor fusion and parameter inference in nonlinear dynamical systems

Thomas B. Schön, Associate Professor, Linköping University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A.

Thursday 18 April 2013, 11:00-12:30

"Biased excitable networks: how cells direct motion in response to gradients (a control perspective)"

Professor Pablo Iglesias, John Hopkins/Max Planck Dresden.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Thursday 21 March 2013, 10:30-11:30

Programming Cells: Computing with DNA

Dr. Neil Dalchau, Microsoft Research .

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 25 January 2013, 14:00-15:30

Predictive control of mechatronic systems

Abhishek Dutta, PhD student, Ghent University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Friday 18 January 2013, 14:00-15:30

Predictive control of mechatronic systems

Mr Abhishek Dutta, PhD student at University of Gent, Belgium.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3B.

Monday 07 January 2013, 14:00-15:30

Pre CDC talk

Richard Pates, David Hayden and Panos Brezas from Control Group, Engineering Department.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 07 December 2012, 14:00-15:30

Compressed Sensing in Cancer Biology? (A Work in Progress)

Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 23 November 2012, 14:00-15:30

Innovation in Cambridge Engineering – how to foster it?

Pieter Knook, Sam Beale and Rick MItchell.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LT0.

Friday 12 October 2012, 14:00-15:30

Probabilistic Methods in Cancer Biology

Prof. M. Vidyasagar FRS, Univ. of Texas, Dallas.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Tuesday 10 July 2012, 14:00-15:00

Financial Modelling with 2-EPT Levy Processes

Professor Bernard Hanzon, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Edgeworth Centre for Financial Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, University College Cork.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3A.

Tuesday 19 June 2012, 14:00-15:00

Engineering and Control of Biological circuits: from yeast to mammalian cells

Dr. Diego di Bernardo, Research Assistant Professor (Ricercatore), University of Naples “Federico II”.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 25 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Economic MPC and the role of exponential turnpike properties

Professor. Dr. Lars Gruene, Chair of Applied Mathematics, Bayreuth University.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 18 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Estimation, Identification and control of cell populations

Professor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Monday 07 May 2012, 14:00-15:00

Stroke Rehabilitation using Electrical Stimulation & Robotics: Open problems in control, identification, sensing and motor learning

Dr Chris Freeman, Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 13 April 2012, 14:00-15:00

Decentralized Optimal Control and Connections to the Human Motor System

Dr Andrew Lamperski, California Institute of Technology.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 02 March 2012, 14:00-15:00

Design and flight testing of nonlinear flight control laws

Dr Thomas Lombaerts (German Aerospace Centre DLR).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 02 December 2011, 14:00-15:00

Hankel structured low rank matrix completion

Dr Ivan Markovsky (University of Southampton).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Friday 18 November 2011, 14:00-15:00

An internal model principle for consensus in heterogeneous multi-agent systems

Prof Frank Allgower (University of Stuttgart).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Thursday 06 October 2011, 14:00-15:00

Robust stability analysis of linear time-varying feedback systems

Sei Zhen Khong (University of Melbourne).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 16 September 2011, 14:00-15:00

Universal laws, architectures, and behaviors of robust, evolvable networks

John Doyle (Caltech).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Monday 12 September 2011, 14:00-15:00

L1 Adaptive Control and Its Transition to Practice

Prof Naira Hovakimyan (UIUC).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Monday 05 September 2011, 14:00-15:00

Control Challenges in Powertrain, Combustion and Drilling Control

Prof Keith Glover (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 17 June 2011, 14:00-15:00

What's under the bonnet? A review of Diesel Engines and their control

Peter Fussey (Ricardo).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 06 May 2011, 14:00-15:00

A Step Beyond The State Of The Art Robust Model Predictive Control Synthesis Methods

Dr Sasa V. Rakovic (University of Oxford).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 01 April 2011, 14:00-15:00

Specification, Design and Verification of Distributed Embedded Systems

Professor Richard Murray (Caltech).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10.

Wednesday 16 March 2011, 15:00-16:00

Model Predictive Control Design and Implementation for Spacecraft Rendezvous

Ed Hartley (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR3.

Friday 25 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

Simulation, Modelling and Embedded Deployment of Complex Algorithms

Dave Maclay (Mathworks).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR10.

Friday 18 February 2011, 14:00-15:00

On the structural controllability of networks of linear systems

Lachlan Blackhall.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Friday 22 October 2010, 14:00-15:00

The Weiss conjecture for infinite dimensional control systems

Dr Andrew Wynn (Imperial College).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR11.

Friday 13 August 2010, 14:00-15:00

Performance limitations of networked systems with information constraints

Professor Yoshito Ohta (Kyoto University).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 02 July 2010, 14:00-15:00

Fundamental limits on the suppression of molecular fluctuations

Dr Ioannis Lestas (University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Oatley meeting room 1.

Monday 28 June 2010, 12:00-13:00

SIMPLY COOPERATIVE

Professor Anthony Ephremides (University of Maryland).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR12.

Friday 28 May 2010, 11:00-12:00

Embedded Optimization for Optimal Control of Mechatronic Systems

Professor Moritz Diehl (K.U. Leuven).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 07 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Optimal experiment design for open and closed loop identification

Professor Michel Gevers (Université catholique de Louvain).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Tuesday 04 May 2010, 14:00-15:00

Matrix Inequalities with Matrix Unknowns

Professor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, UC San Diego).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Friday 16 April 2010, 14:00-15:00

Collaborating Swarms, Multi-network Topologies and Constrained Coalitional Games

Professor John Baras (University of Maryland).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Thursday 25 March 2010, 14:00-15:00

Event-triggered sampling for state estimation

Maben Rabi.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 19 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

SMALL, MEDIUM, LARGE: NONLINEAR SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TOOLS USING SUM OF SQUARES

Dr Antonis Papachristodoulou (University of Oxford).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR6.

Tuesday 09 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Energy Flow in Interconnected Systems

Professor Jan Willems (K.U. Leuven).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 05 February 2010, 14:00-15:00

Performance Improvement in Paper Making using Model Predictive Control

Dr Paul Austin.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, LR5.

Friday 29 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Q-learning and Pontryagin's Minimum Principle

Professor Sean Meyn (Director, Decision & Control Lab, CSL ECE UIUC).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 6.

Wednesday 13 January 2010, 14:00-15:00

Stochastic Model Predictive Control: Tractability and constraint satisfaction

Professor John Lygeros (Head of the Automatic Control Laboratory, ETH Zurich).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Tuesday 01 December 2009, 16:00-17:00

Verifying stability of approximate explicit MPC

Professor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 27 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Teaching control using lego

Dr Glenn Vinnicombe, Control Group, University of Cambridge.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 0.

Friday 20 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Fault-tolerant control - is it possible?

Professor Jan Maciejowski (CUED Control Group).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 13 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

Recent Theoretical Developments in Optimal Control

Professor Richard Vinter (Imperial College London).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 06 November 2009, 14:00-15:00

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Dr Najl Valeyev (St. John’s Institute of Dermatology, Division of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, King’s College London School of Medicine).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Friday 02 October 2009, 14:00-15:00

Mobile Wireless Networked Controlled Systems: Control Issues

Professor Anthony Tzes (University of Patras, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 11.

Thursday 17 September 2009, 14:00-15:00

Load balancing by network curvature control

Professor Edmond Jonckheere (Ming Hsieh Department of Electrical Engineering and Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Friday 26 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Synchronverters: Inverters that mimic synchronous generators

Dr. Qing-Chang Zhong (Senior Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics, The University of Liverpool).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theater 2.

Friday 12 June 2009, 14:00-15:00

Gradient systems: overview and recent results

Dr Pierre-Antoine Absil (Department of Mathematical Engineering, Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 01 May 2009, 14:00-15:00

ROBUST PRACTICAL OUTPUT TRACKING FOR HIGHLY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

Professor Hiroshi Inaba (School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Denki University, Guest Professor, Bristol Institute of Technology, University of the West of England).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Monday 20 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Feedback and Robustness in Population Dynamics

Professor Stuart Townley (School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics, University of Exeter).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Friday 03 April 2009, 14:00-15:00

Overview of Control Systems Research at the Rolls-Royce Control and Systems University Technology Centre.

Professor Haydn Thompson (Programme Manager, Rolls-Royce UTC in Control Systems; Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering, University of Sheffield).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 27 March 2009, 14:00-15:00

Analytical solutions, duality and symmetry in constrained control and estimation

Dr Jose De Dona (The University of Newcastle, Australia--on study leave during 2008/2009 at Ecole des Mines de Paris, France).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 20 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

R&D in Control & Optimization in ABB Corporate Research

Dr Alf Isaksson (ABB Corporate Research).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 13 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Control systems for Maglev and active railway suspensions

Professor Roger Goodall (Head of Systems Research Division, Electronic and Electrical Engineering, Loughborough University).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 06 February 2009, 14:00-15:00

Modularity, polyrhythms, and what robotics and control may yet learn from the brain

Professor Jean-Jacques Slotine (Nonlinear Systems Laboratory, MIT).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 16 January 2009, 14:00-15:00

Stochasticity and bistability in the lac operon

Dr Nicholas Ross (CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 14 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Machine learning based approaches for decision & control under uncertainties (in electric power systems)

Professor Louis Wehenkel (Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Liege).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Wednesday 12 November 2008, 11:00-12:00

Optimal Control behind the Passive Dynamic Walking?

Dr Kentaro Hirata (Nara Institude of Science and Technology, visiting scholar at CUED).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 07 November 2008, 14:00-15:00

Input-Output Controllability Analysis and Control Structure Selection

Professor Morten Hovd (Deparment of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 31 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Learning to Control

Dr Carl Edward Rasmussen (Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 17 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

Stabilisability via time-delayed feedback: an eigenvalue optimisation approach

Dr Henri Huijberts (School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary, University of London).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Theatre 2.

Friday 10 October 2008, 14:00-15:00

A systems-scale dynamic analysis of complex biology systems

Feng He (Helmholtz Center for Infection Research, Germany).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 11 July 2008, 14:00-15:00

Towards control and design of pulse-based systems

Dr Ali Belabbas (Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 27 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Subdiagonal pivot structures and associated canonical forms under state isometries

Professor Bernard Hanzon (School of Mathematical Sciences, University College Cork).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Tuesday 17 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Convex Matrix Inequalities vs Linear Matrix Inequalities

Professor Bill Helton (Mathematics Department, University of California San Diego).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Monday 16 June 2008, 11:30-12:30

Dynamics of Chemical Reaction Networks

Dr David Angeli (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 06 June 2008, 14:00-15:00

Feedback Control and the Arrow of Time

Professor Malcolm Smith (Cambridge University Engineering Department).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 30 May 2008, 11:00-12:00

Stability analysis for hybrid dynamical systems

Professor Andrew R. Teel (Department of Electrical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Monday 12 May 2008, 11:00-12:00

Eulerian and Lagrangian Observability of Point Vortex Flows

Professor Arthur J. Krener (Department of Mathematics, University of California Davis).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 09 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Price Mechanisms for Distributed Control Synthesis

Professor Anders Rantzer (Department of Automatic Control, Lund University, Sweden).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 12.

Friday 02 May 2008, 14:00-15:00

Some Applications of the Kullback-Leibler Divergence Rate in Hidden Markov Models

Dr. M. Vidyasagar (Executive Vice President, Tata Consultancy Services).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 6.

Wednesday 09 April 2008, 11:30-12:30

Constant-Factor Approximation Algorithms for Stochastic Control

Professor Sanjay Lall (Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Stanford University).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 5.

Monday 07 April 2008, 14:00-15:00

Systems and control challenges in model-based reservoir engineering

Professor Paul Van den Hof (Delft Center for Systems and Control, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 14 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

Information Flows in Cooperative Networked Control Systems

Dr Girish Nair (University of Melbourne, Australia).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 4.

Tuesday 04 March 2008, 14:00-15:00

A behavioural approach to play in mechanical networks

Dr Frank Scheibe.

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 29 February 2008, 14:00-15:00

Towards applied nonlinear adaptive control

Professor Alessandro Astolfi (Imperial College, London).

Cambridge University Engineering Department, Lecture Room 3B.

Friday 25 January 2008, 14:00-15:00